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Zest and spirit in Adams' Girls of the Golden West in Los Angeles
John Adams' opera, in its third revision since its 2017, receives an outstanding concert performance in Walt Disney Concert Hall under the composer's baton.
Adams’ dark Gold Rush opera arrives in Amsterdam
Dame Shirley’s texts are here sung by the young American soprano Julia Bullock whose pliable instrument and stylish way with words reveal an ideal storyteller.
The dark side of the gold: Girls of the Golden West
Adams and Peter Sellars demand that the audience take a cold, hard look at the Gold Rush and the founding history of California.
Matthew Polenzani is superb in San Francisco Opera's Tales of Hoffmann
The return of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann to the stage of San Francisco Opera on Wednesday night was a welcome and long overdue event.
Nixon in China reaches San Francisco
It’s difficult to believe that the current run of John Adams’ Nixon in China at the San Francisco Opera marks the opera’s local premiere. Adams is not only one of the leading composers of his generation, but he is also a celebrated local hero.